November 1936

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The following events occurred in November 1936:

November 1, 1936 (Sunday)

November 2, 1936 (Monday)

November 3, 1936 (Tuesday)

November 4, 1936 (Wednesday)

November 5, 1936 (Thursday)

November 6, 1936 (Friday)

November 7, 1936 (Saturday)

  • The Madrid Defense Council was formed.
  • Father Charles Coughlin announced that he was withdrawing from "all radio activity in the best interest of all the people" and retiring from politics. This retirement proved to be short-lived as he returned to the air in January 1937.
  • Died: Charles "Chic" Sale, 51, American actor and vaudevillian

November 8, 1936 (Sunday)

November 9, 1936 (Monday)

November 10, 1936 (Tuesday)

November 11, 1936 (Wednesday)

  • The Peel Commission arrived in Palestine to investigate the causes of the recent Arab unrest and recommend solutions.
  • Joseph Goebbels banned art criticism in Germany and declared that only "art reporting" would be allowed from now on.
  • President Roosevelt sent birthday greetings to Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, but only addressed him as the "king of Italy" and avoided his new additional title of "emperor of Ethiopia".

November 12, 1936 (Thursday)

  • Winston Churchill gave a speech in Parliament attacking the Baldwin government for its slow response to the "unwelcome fact" of German rearmament, warning that Britain was entering a new period of danger. "The era of procrastination, of half measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to a close", Churchill stated. "In its place, we are entering a period of consequences."
  • The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge opened.
  • The comedy play Housemaster by Ian Hay premiered at the Apollo Theatre in London.

November 13, 1936 (Friday)

BBC television weather chart for 13 November 1936 - the BBC made the first televised weather forecasts in this month

November 14, 1936 (Saturday)

  • Germany announced that it would no longer observe the articles in the Treaty of Versailles that had internationalized rivers such as the Rhine, Elbe and Oder so that landlocked countries could have access to the sea.
  • Buenaventura Durruti arrived in Madrid with members of his anarchist brigade, the Durruti Column.
  • The British government created the Suez Canal Zone under its control.

November 15, 1936 (Sunday)

November 16, 1936 (Monday)

November 17, 1936 (Tuesday)

  • In British Parliament, Labour MP William Adamson asked President of the Board of Trade Walter Runciman if there was "any special scrutiny of books and printed literature imported from other countries." Runciman, pretending to be unaware that this was in reference to the censorship of foreign newspapers and magazines reporting on the king's relationship with Wallis Simpson, asked Adamson to provide particulars to his office in order to get an answer. Ellen Wilkinson, also of Labour, then asked Runciman "why, in the case of two American magazines of high repute imported into this country during the last few weeks, at least two and sometimes three pages have been torn out; and what is this thing the British public are not allowed to see?" "My department has nothing to do with that", Runciman answered.
  • Died: John Bowers, 50, American film actor (suicide)

November 18, 1936 (Wednesday)

November 19, 1936 (Thursday)

November 20, 1936 (Friday)

  • 362 were killed in northern Akita, Japan when a dike collapsed after heavy rains.
  • In the Spanish Civil War, the Germans launched Operation Ursula.
  • German submarine U-18 sank in a collision during a training exercise with the loss of 8 out of 20 crew. It would be raised eight days later and returned to service in September 1937.
  • The screwball comedy Love on the Run starring Joan Crawford and Clark Gable was released.
  • Born: Don DeLillo, author, in New York City
  • Died: Buenaventura Durruti, 40, Spanish anarchist (killed in Spanish Civil War); José Antonio Primo de Rivera, 33, Spanish Falangist leader (executed by firing squad)

November 21, 1936 (Saturday)

November 22, 1936 (Sunday)

  • Submarines attacked the Spanish Republican fleet at Cartagena. The Spanish Republic issued a statement expressing its belief that the submarines were "part of a foreign fleet, since the rebels have never possessed such instruments."
  • Died: Ernest R. Graham, 68, American architect

November 23, 1936 (Monday)

November 24, 1936 (Tuesday)

  • Nazi Germany attacked the Nobel Prize committee for its decision to award the Peace Prize to Carl von Ossietzky. "Bestowing the Nobel Prize on a notorious traitor is an impudent challenge and insult to the new Germany", the statement read.
  • Following the German and Italian recognition of Francoist Spain, the Republic seized their embassies in Madrid.
  • A train accident on the Chicago "L" killed 10 people.

November 25, 1936 (Wednesday)

  • Japan and Nazi Germany signed the Anti-Comintern Pact.
  • Edward VIII met with Stanley Baldwin again and said he wanted a morganatic marriage that would allow him to remain King while Wallis Simpson would be designated his consort instead of Queen. This arrangement would require new legislation and though Baldwin said this would not be acceptable, he would take the matter up with the Cabinet.
  • The drama film Lloyd's of London had its world premiere at the Astor Theatre in New York City.
  • Died: Andrew Harper, 92, Scottish-American biblical scholar

November 26, 1936 (Thursday)

  • Albania recognized Francoist Spain.
  • The Daily Mirror became the first British newspaper to put Wallis Simpson on its front page. The story, which only identified her as "a former United States society woman now living in London", was about the death threats she was receiving and the precautions detectives were taking of opening all packages she received.

November 27, 1936 (Friday)

  • The Spanish Republic invoked Article XI of the Covenant of the League of Nations in which any member of the League affected by war or threat of war could request a meeting of the council.
  • The British Cabinet rejected Edward's proposal for a morganatic marriage.
  • President Roosevelt visited Rio de Janeiro. He made a speech in the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies in which he called on all republics of the Americas to work together so "conflict will be banished from this part of the world."
  • Born: Dahlia Ravikovitch, poet, in Ramat Gan, Mandatory Palestine (d. 2005)

November 28, 1936 (Saturday)

  • Franco signed a secret treaty of mutual friendship and assistance with Italy.
  • 29 were killed and 69 wounded in the unsuccessful revolt of a regiment in the Ecuadorian Army.
  • Japan recognized Ethiopia as Italian territory.
  • This week's issue of The New Yorker included a profile of Time Inc. co-founder Henry Luce. The article by Wolcott Gibbs was completely written in a parody of Time magazine's idiosyncratic style and included the famous phrase, "Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind." Luce was not amused by the parody and Time Inc. would feud with The New Yorker for years afterward.[self-published source]
  • Navy defeated Army 7-0 in the Army–Navy Game before 102,000 people at Philadelphia Municipal Stadium.
  • Born: Gary Hart, diplomat and politician, in Ottawa, Kansas

November 29, 1936 (Sunday)

November 30, 1936 (Monday)


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